The 1999 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state. The result was a victory for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which won 26 seats. After leaving the NDA, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, hoped to create some damage, but ended up losing 8 seats, compared to the 1998 Lok Sabha elections. This is also the first time that Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party, helping them have power at the national level for the next 5 years with the NDA, before they joined the UPA. The NDA, ended up losing 3 seats, compared to the election the year before, due to AIADMK leaving the NDA, but the seats were made up, because DMK left the united front and joined the NDA.

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Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1999

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39 (of 543) seats in the Lok Sabha
Registered	4,77,33,664
Turnout	2,76,76,543 (57.98%) 0.03%
First party Second party   Leader M. Karunanidhi J. Jayalalithaa Party DMK AIADMK Alliance NDA Congress alliance Seats won 26 13 Seat change 10 6 Popular vote 1,28,35,960 1,13,49,388 Percentage 47.13% 41.69% Swing 5.36% 7.94%
1999 Election map (by constituencies) Saffron = NDA and Green = INC+

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Alliance		Party		Popular Vote	Percentage	Swing	Seats won	Seat Change
	National Democratic Alliance		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	6,298,832	23.13%	3.05%	12	7
			Pattali Makkal Katchi	2,236,821	8.21%	2.16%	5	1
			Bharatiya Janata Party	1,945,286	7.14%	0.28%	4	1
			Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1,620,527	5.95%	0.31%	4	1
			MGR Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	396,216	1.46%	0.37%	1	1
			Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress	338,278	1.24%	0.19%	0	1
			Total	12,835,960	47.13%	5.36%	26	10
	AIADMK+		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	6,992,003	25.68%	0.21%	10	8
			Indian National Congress	3,022,107	11.10%	6.32%	2	2
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	639,516	2.35%	1.72%	1	1
			Communist Party of India	695,762	2.56%	0.11%	0	1
			Total	11,349,388	41.69%	7.94%	13	6
	Tamil Maanila Congress			1,946,899	7.15%	13.04%	0	3
	Independents			339,948	1.25%	0.22%	0
	Other Parties (20 parties)			759,084	2.78%	0.48%	0
Total				27,231,279	100.00%		39
Valid Votes				27,231,279	98.39%
Invalid Votes				445,264	1.61%
Total Votes				27,676,543	100.00%
Reigstered Voters/Turnout				47,733,664	57.98%	0.03%

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†: Seat change represents seats won in terms of the current alliances, which is considerably different from the last election.
‡: Vote % reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote %, reflects the % of votes the party received per constituency that they contested.
Sources: Election Commission of India^[2]

Source: The Tribune^[4]

• Elections in Tamil Nadu